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[–] Microtonal_Banana@lemmy.zip 55 points 1 day ago (3 children)

Nope. Thats just religious extremism for ya.

For example 36 white American Christians in Oklahoma just voted against ending child marriage and they quoted the Bible as their reason

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/36-oklahoma-republicans-vote-against-child-marriage-ban/ar-AA24bCyP

"Rep. Derrick Hildebrant quoted Hebrews 13:4, questioning “Hebrews 13:4 – ‘Let marriage be held in honour among all.’ Does ‘among all’ now only mean those who are 18 and older?”

And here's another white Christian proposing a bill to give the death penalty to woman who seek abortions. He serves on the board of a church in north carolina.

"The legislation, backed only by Republican state Representative Keith Kidwell, would classify abortion as first-degree murder and open the right of another person to defend the life of the unborn baby** as they see fit.**"

https://www.newsweek.com/republican-bill-deadly-force-stop-abortions-north-carolina-12005136

"Those who live in glass houses shouldn't throw stones"

[–] Viceversa@lemmy.world 1 points 9 hours ago

Religious extremism is inseparable from religion. And the religion in question in that story about the murdered girl is islam.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 1 points 10 hours ago

Keith Kidwell

Jesus Christ, the writers are getting lazy...

[–] Iceblade02@lemmy.world 18 points 1 day ago (2 children)

You do realize that "Christianity bad" doesn't mean that "Islam bad" is false, right?

Both can be true at once.

I will however dispute that it is a question of extremism. The fact is that a majority of muslims, globally, hold views that I would consider to be misogynistic (feel free to update me on that if there is a more recent global study with the same scope).

If something is the norm in a group rather than a fringe idea, it can hardly be considered extremism. Given that Islam has many of these misogynistic values close to its' core, it isn't particularly shocking either.

As such, considering the above, I consider Islam to be bad on the whole. Note: this doesn't mean that someone is inherently "bad" due to being muslim, or that "good" muslims don't exist - I am acquainted with a few.

[–] prole@lemmy.blahaj.zone 2 points 10 hours ago

Misogyny doesn't automatically mean ritualistic murder, dude.

[–] FistingEnthusiast@lemmy.world 2 points 13 hours ago

Christianity is barbaric, cruel and hateful

Judaism is cruel, barbaric and hateful

Islam is barbaric and hateful and cruel

They're all fucked

What's happening in the middle east would be happening regardless of their superstition. It's a region that has always been unstable, and WWI & II resulted in the west trying to drag them into their sphere of influence to take the oil

But I'd like to see the people who did this burn slowly, as well as anyone in the world who thinks it's ok